Trade Unions

The New Internationalist’s free Ethical Careers Fair and Conference is offering a space for the new generation of graduates to meet ethical employers face-to-face. Marcella Via Often, university students who are about to graduate are faced with the dilemma of working in an environment that does not reflect […]

The EHRC has failed to recommend that union equality reps should be given statutory rights and trained in dealing with workplace sexual harassment. Instead the EHRC recommended the creation of so called sexual harassment ‘champions’. Recommendations by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) including outlawing non-disclosure agreements being […]

Unite, the UK’s largest union, has lambasted the decision of communities secretary Savid Javid to block the open cast coal mining development in Highthorn Northumberland. Javid made the decision on the ‘grounds of climate change’ however it will result in UK industries such as steel, building products and concrete […]

Unite has announced an intensification of strike action in the dispute with Essex concrete maker over the creation of a two tier workforce. Unite has announced a 48 hour strike starting on Wednesday 28 March from at 06:00 and ending on Friday 30 March, at the Stanford Le Hope […]

In commemoration of the UN’s International day against racial discrimination, an international demonstration will take place in London on 17 of March. And also in, Europe and the US Marcella Via Seventeen years have passed since the start of the War on Terror. While this conflict means an […]